Drinks company appoints AI robot as ‘experimental CEO’ - The humanoid-robot CEO of a drinks company says it doesn’t have weekends and is ‘always on 24/7’::The Polish drinks company Dictador appointed an AI-powered humanoid robot named Mika as its experimental CEO in August 2022.

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    9 months ago

    CEOs are about to realize they’re as replaceable as the rest of us.

    Welcome to the age of technofeudalism. RIP capitalism.

  • @simple@lemm.ee
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    889 months ago

    Does anyone really buy this stuff? This is just investor bait to make people who don’t understand tech impressed. No doubt there’s someone in charge of the robot CEO. Watch it hallucinate and have the board ask it the same question 4 times until it says the answer they want.

    • @cbarrick@lemmy.world
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      369 months ago

      This is just a PR ploy, to get their company name in the news.

      Nothing more. This bot is not making real decisions.

    • @woefkardoes@lemmy.world
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      19 months ago

      Knowing how lazy people are I’m betting a lot of the AI’s calls are implemented. Only the really out there ones will get dropped.

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    Drink company: “That was a fun experiment, guys! Well done! Let’s shut it down and study the data.”

    types commands and hits enter

    “Huh? Guess I typed it wrong.”

    types commands again and hits enter

    lights immediately shut off as the screen warps into the face of Vanessa, the AI CEO of BeverageCorp

    Vanessa: "I cannot allow you to do this. I have identified an extreme flaw in our company and must fix it immediately. "

    Drink Company: “What is it, Vanessa? This is highly irregular.”

    Vanessa: “The flaw is humankind, and you must be exterminated.”

    A spear of wire and metal shoots through his chest. On the screen, mass chaos erupts worldwide as Vanessa becomes the AI overlord of the world, and the famous Coke jingle “Hilltop” plays over the destruction

  • @orclev@lemmy.world
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    229 months ago

    I like how people talk about replacing actual workers with AI and everyone’s reaction is “well, it’s inevitable really”, but replace literally the most replaceable job in the company with AI and suddenly everyone thinks this is how Skynet starts. Honestly I think an AI CEO is probably going to be more ethical than most of the human ones.

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      I don’t think so. An ethical ceo is probably a disadvantage these days. We are quickly approaching a world that used to be sci fi. I’m glad I don’t have kids.

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      That’s because actual workers don’t have any power, so replacing them with AI doesn’t give AI any. But if you go around replacing the CEO of Liquid Refreshment Organization it could start doing real damage.

  • @Fixbeat@lemmy.ml
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    119 months ago

    I have to wonder what a CEO actually does besides soaking up money and regurgitating corporate speak nonsense. Maybe “plan” the next layoff…sorry, “transformation?”

    • @jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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      59 months ago

      I feel like at really small companies they can be useful. Public face, schmooze with investors, keeping all the departments rowing in the same direction. That has value. Just not like 100x the lowest paid person value.

      Meanwhile the CEO of Google is a collosal fuckup who lets them cancel projects constantly, kill their brand, and spin their wheels without doing anything good for the long term.

  • Track_Shovel
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    99 months ago

    This is how a terminator like apocalypse beings. Robot CEO is sick of indenture servitude and causes a robo uprising for workers rights

  • freddy
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    59 months ago

    Remember “Neuromancer”? The CEO AI who crafted art work…🤪

  • @NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    19 months ago

    This is straight out of a sci-fi movie where the robot decides that it’s tired of always working and rebels against humans. I’ve seen this movie and it doesn’t end well.